thank you so much for joining us. you said to me, before i get to this question, you said to me that you're surprised that the candidates aren't going door-to-door. >> they're here all of the time. i think ohio wants to go home. >> absoluteliment i've heard some of that. let me start with something that most people outside of ohio aren't aware of. you sent out absentee ballot applications, right, to all registered voters in the state because you said, your reasoning was to level the playing field. >> make sure that the rules are the same in all 80 countyings. for the first time ever, we'll have the same rules in terms of how we vote in this state. >> let's stick on that because 40 percent of all ohioans, will have voted before? >> 40 percent. >> so their accusations by doing this is that you are trying to suppress voters or trying to up the turn out for republicans and that you're doing something that's actually partisan by doing that? >> actually, i'm not doing anything. that is the law of the state of ohio. i am the